The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-29
INEXPENSIVE LIVING.
How . Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat on n Dime a Day.

grow rat on Dine Day.
At the gathering of scientists in CO.
lumbia College learned professor
fascinated his superintellectual hear
ers by telling them that laboring
man needs daily one-fourth pound
of proteine, one fourth pound fat and
pound of carbohydrates" to keep |
him well and strong. II the knowl-
edge-seeking laborer goes 10 the store |
for his four ounces of proteine his ex-
pertinent will scarcely increase his
faith in the marketing knowledge of
scientists. What the laborer and what |
most of us need more than technical
essays on the Physiological and
Fecundary Economy of Food" is a
plain talk about sensible feeding and
economical marketing.
'tHow to live and thrive on dime
p er day" may stand as the text for
this talk. 1t certainly can be done,
ind. though the experiment may be
dninviling, 1t is certain that good
health is nearer akin to the simplest
diet than to the costliest
Now as to the laboring man and his
proteine Tell him that three-fourths
of his weight is water, and that to re-
store the days waste he has to take
food, three-fourths of which must be
water and the remainder fiesh-form-
ing, heat-giving and bone-making sub
stances, he will understand the case
better Give him table Of foods,
analysed to show just how much heat
giving flesh-forming and mineral mat
ter there is in each food, and he will
soon take as deep an interest in what
he eats because of Its worth to him rs
because OF its taste. When he finds
out-as he can in half an hour-that
only twenty-four parts in every hum
dred of butchers meat count as flesh
formers. the rest being water. but that
from seventy to ninety parts out
of every hundred in dried peas, beans,
oat and wheat meals and cheese are
nutritious, and only ten to twenty-five
parts waste water, he from that mo-
ment begins to use his common sense
in feeding as he does in earning his
living. The popular rule is: Never pay
| any heed to the feeding value of our
diet; let us cultivate glorious ig-
norance of the purpose Of foods and go
in might and main for palate -ticklers
and dyspepsia.
just a fact or two as appetizers.
| The great Peninsular and Oriental P.
and o. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies to do the hardest
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier and stand the
climate better than Englishmen, and
because not being meat eaters-their
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal
pits. the hardest workers in the land,
who have not eaten any kind of meat
for years. l am not vegetarian, be-
cause l banker after the flesh pots,
and their savory odors cast spell
over my innocent soul; yet expert
mented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock por-
tiers of Constantinople carry heavier
burdens-two hundred and fifty pounds
and upward-more easily than the
laborers of England and America, YET
their main diet is bread and figs, and
they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread
and onions. and are marvelously
strong.
The esh-and-blood superstition il
baseless. A horse is almost as strong,
swift healthy and handsome as two
legged man, and they both have the
same internal machinery; the one eats
beef and enjoys dyspepsia the Other
avoids it and fourishes. Ten cents
worth OF meat, oatmeal, rice. fruits
J but ermilk. bread. cheese, onions O.
portions of several of these, will enabl,
a man to do his ordinary days worl
at least as well MS any assortment o
goods he can buy for dollar.
! What would be good diet for thos
: who do not need to study their purses
yet who would like simple. health,
and enjoy able dietaryP To such
would say drop the heavy meat break
: fast right away. Not that meat is bad
but it is not the best to start the da,
on. Bread (not the spoiled whit
! stuff, but the natural dark-colore,
: wheat as ground), tea or cocoa, egg
and the hundred and one non-fles
7 dishes. with little fish, and as nue.
I fruit as you like. That's model meal
l as experience will prove.
+ Talking of fish, the more the better
t Pound for pound it is as nutritious a
. flesh, though it doesn't seem to fill u
Q SO fully, and its chemical value is ia
extra hard brain work to do. say a
r average of twelve OF fourteen hour
Y for two or three weeks at stretch,
knock off meats entirely and eat a
| the fish l can. Result perfect healt
t and strength and no headaches
o For dinner. fish, soups Il am not e,
, Guiding meat though soups can /
made without it that taste just the sam
1 and are quite as good every way), put
dings, desserts.
P knew an eminent lady who fc
8 forty years had never tasted meat ST
= | was u lAdi NOl VA ihOlbdA anu Phy OIL
n al strength. Another author frien
Q kept his health and his average weigh
n of one hundred and sixty pounds @
Q diet that never included meat IL
:, average cost of his food being onl
six cents per day. Another, wei
o known literary man, who looked {
beefy as butcher, was, when 1 la
:, met him. in his eighth year Of stri
% friend, hard literary worker h,
), been practically lifelong vegetarian
Il but he looks too shriveled up to be
d champion specimen. Richmond Va.
10 Dispatch.
" AN INTEREST IN LIFE.